/etc/aliases

[Stuart Sears]

On Friday 30 July 2004 20:40, Thomas E. Dukes wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was looking at my /etc/aliases files and noticed that I have the entry:
>
> root:  marc
This should be commented out in the aliases file - it was only ever intended 
as an example of how to alias root's mail to an unprivileged user.
Ideally you should have such an alias in place - it is considered bad practice 
to log in as root just to read email.
>
> Is this correct?  I don't have a user "marc".  I am getting mail for
> "root", so what is this?  What should it be in a RedHat 9.0 system?
just replace marc with the name of an unprivileged user that you want to use 
for this purpose. You must run the 'newaliases' command after doing this.
I would assume that if you are looking at the aliases file you may already 
have known this...
HTH

Stuart
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Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX